# ElevenLabs expands to the Netherlands with Amsterdam office

ElevenLabs established an office in the Netherlands and plans to triple its local GTM and engineering headcount this year.

- Goswijn Thijssen was appointed to lead the Netherlands operations.
- The company fine-tuned its Dutch transcription models with local data, increasing Dutch postcode recognition accuracy from 64% to 82% for telecom client KPN.
- Dutch telecom company KPN runs voice verification agents on the stack handling roughly 60,000 calls per week at a 62% success rate.
- The ElevenLabs platform currently offers 100 Dutch voices.

## Why it matters

Dutch enterprise customers gain dedicated local engineering and support teams to deploy and customize voice AI models.

## Sources

- [ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs expands to the Netherlands with Amsterdam office](https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-netherlands)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-10-01. https://dstilled.ai/story/3bed107d-7877-4be9-a157-7eba48d98e58